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Naval Air Systems Command

GENERAL ENGINEER

Department of the Navy · Patuxent River, Maryland

Salary
$102,415 - $158,322 per year
Pay grade
DP-4
Schedule
Full-time
Appointment
Permanent
Opened
Sep 29, 2026
Closes
Nov 9, 2026
Remote
No
Telework eligible
Yes
Openings
1
Security clearance
Top Secret
Promotion potential
None
Announcement
DE-13073114-26-WBO

Who may apply: Open to the public

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Summary

This position is to support Combat Survivability efforts supporting multiple fixed-winged, rotorcraft and weapons program offices. This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants must follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section of this flyer to be considered. Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer.

Duties

  • This position provides independent technical engineering support for combat survivability activities across assigned NAVAIR programs.
  • The incumbent may support fixed-wing aircraft, rotary-wing aircraft, and weapon systems throughout various phases of the Department of War (DoW) acquisition lifecycle.
  • The incumbent applies professional engineering judgment to plan, execute, assess, and communicate combat survivability analyses, test activities, technical products, and program recommendations.
  • This engineer independently performs assigned work with minimal oversight; leads discrete technical efforts; supports project planning and resourcing; and provides technical guidance, mentoring, and training to junior engineers.

Qualifications

Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or DP-03 pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1. Demonstrated independent proficiency in one or more combat survivability specialty areas: platform signatures (RF, IR, and/or EO/IR), vulnerability, LFT&E, CBRN survivability, or mission effectiveness; 2. Experience supporting aspects of engineering, test, analysis, design, integration, or acquisition activities for complex systems; 3. Experience preparing technical analyses, reports, briefings, or recommendations for engineering and program stakeholders. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Education

Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: A) Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. OR B) Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: 1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manuf…

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